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my great fear is maybe we do go back to the laws of 1994. i'm not sure in this day and age when you add up to other issues, when it comes to video games and health issues we get there. one is there's a technological solution i keep hearing more and more about we should force gun makers to have electronic fingerprints on the guns to individuals, if we're going to have them out there at all, not talking about semi-automatics, straight handguns. the second issue is in this world we live in. i was just at the airport, we spend billions of dollars with the tsa to avoid one shoe bomber. to avoid one person with mental health issues. as much as i want to focus on mental health issues, i think the guns ultimately are it. >> you look at the fact we have allowed the federal government to be intrusive every time we get on the plane. we have allowed our 9-year-old children to be stopped and frisked. our grandmothers to be stopped and frisked. all these people that are our loved ones, every time we go through a tsa screening. we're willing to do that bec
my great fear is maybe we do go back to the laws of 1994. i'm not sure in this day and age when you add up to other issues, when it comes to video games and health issues we get there. one is there's a technological solution i keep hearing more and more about we should force gun makers to have electronic fingerprints on the guns to individuals, if we're going to have them out there at all, not talking about semi-automatics, straight handguns. the second issue is in this world we live in. i was...
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and a variety of laws from state to state. now, i think that kate would say that if the pro-choice movement had been a little more e expansive, perhaps moving their mandate into reproductive rights around access to contraception, access to health care for poor women, that they could have been a little more successful in moving their agenda forward. >> you know, they do realize, though, none of this happens in a vacuum. and you look at the polls that show americans are becoming more, quote, pro-life every year. and i remember when kate, when we were expecting kate, i remember looking at the 3-d imagery. >> yeah, technology has a lot to do with this. >> identify got two older boys, and i remember seeing kate for the first time. and when they did the ultrasound, and i just gasped. >> yeah. >> by the way, i look at jack now. and the arch of jack's nose nose, i picked up in the first ultrasound. and every time i see that arch, i'm like, oh, miieieied god, i that early on. speaking of technology, jack was born two-and-a-half months
and a variety of laws from state to state. now, i think that kate would say that if the pro-choice movement had been a little more e expansive, perhaps moving their mandate into reproductive rights around access to contraception, access to health care for poor women, that they could have been a little more successful in moving their agenda forward. >> you know, they do realize, though, none of this happens in a vacuum. and you look at the polls that show americans are becoming more,...
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that is, the existing law was on the books. the fact is, this is unusual circumstances to have a law that gives the president what he really wants, which is a tax increase. we could have said, fine, we're going to allow taxes to go up on all americans. i thought that's a bad idea. i don't think you can solve this problem with tax increases. so what we did is we spared as many americans as we possibly could from a tax increase, and we never had any leverage on spending. i want to correct something that congressman van hollen said. the president's proposal, if you remember, was over $1 trillion in tax increases, and then the $1 trillion in so-called spending cuts, which were never specified, we're going to turn off the sequester for ten years. there was no spending cut. and by the way, the president also wanted an unlimited debt ceiling increase. that's just, that was clearly somebody who was quite happy to go over the fiscal cliff. our opportunity here is on the debt ceiling. the president's made it very clear. he doesn't haven'
that is, the existing law was on the books. the fact is, this is unusual circumstances to have a law that gives the president what he really wants, which is a tax increase. we could have said, fine, we're going to allow taxes to go up on all americans. i thought that's a bad idea. i don't think you can solve this problem with tax increases. so what we did is we spared as many americans as we possibly could from a tax increase, and we never had any leverage on spending. i want to correct...
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we have need-to-know information how the new health care law impacts how they do things. from try jump yumps to scandals, a look back at columns from around the country. keep it right here on "morning joe." [ woman ] dear cat, your hair mixes with pollen and dust. i get congested. but now, with zyrtec-d®, i have the proven allergy relief of zyrtec®, plus a powerful decongestant. zyrtec-d® lets me breath freer, so i can love the air. [ male announcer ] zyrtec-d®. behind the pharmacy counter. no prescription needed. >>> wow, this is huge. reverend al coming up, your second annual revy awards this monday new year's eve. >> monday, 6:00 eastern. we do a review of the year and get all dressed up and have a panel. we're not dressed up now? >> this is like oscar night when we talk about who did what in the politics and the winners and losers. year. it's really classy and humorous. >> how many winners as opposed to losers? >> there's an equal amount. we review it and are candid and we do it in a classy way. >> some of the winners are losers? >> some of the losers are winners
we have need-to-know information how the new health care law impacts how they do things. from try jump yumps to scandals, a look back at columns from around the country. keep it right here on "morning joe." [ woman ] dear cat, your hair mixes with pollen and dust. i get congested. but now, with zyrtec-d®, i have the proven allergy relief of zyrtec®, plus a powerful decongestant. zyrtec-d® lets me breath freer, so i can love the air. [ male announcer ] zyrtec-d®. behind the...
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whether that law will accomplish its goal is irrelevant. policy-making has become an activity that supports the genetic and financial needs of policymakers and their follower tribes. the community's role, we've lately learned, is to provide revenue. where are we going with that? >> i think he started off in a legitimate direction where he talked about how much of the legislation is done with deadlines and during lame-duck sessions. we're responsive as opposed to getting proactive. i get where he's coming from with respect to failures with the assault weapons ban in 1994. if you had a ban prior to 1994, you could hold on to it, but that doesn't excuse the government from trying to curb some of these episodes of mass gun violence. i think there's an obligation as a society for us to try to figure out ways to make these less likely to happen. and whether that's a reintroduction of the assault weapons ban or whether it's something more simple like banning high-capacity magazines, you know, why wouldn't we try to see if that works? i have yet to
whether that law will accomplish its goal is irrelevant. policy-making has become an activity that supports the genetic and financial needs of policymakers and their follower tribes. the community's role, we've lately learned, is to provide revenue. where are we going with that? >> i think he started off in a legitimate direction where he talked about how much of the legislation is done with deadlines and during lame-duck sessions. we're responsive as opposed to getting proactive. i get...
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and still another stunned the country by upholding the president's health care law from the big chair on the united states supreme court. it was enough to make one more harvard guy sing. ♪ i'm so in love with you >> reporter: not quite as strong a year for the harvard of the pacific northwest. reed college, represented here on "wheel of fortune." >> fan, fan, wand! oh! >> reporter: 2012 was a tantalizingly cruel year if you were a lion simply trying to eat a young child at the zoo. >> oh, my god! >> reporter: it was a bad year in new york city if you were a person simply trying to drink a giant bucket of soda. but defenders of food freedom fought back. with a mashed potato vending machine. an ice cream cone crust pizza and a bacon sundae. our faith was shaken a bit this year when a nun was caught on tape at a convenience store slipping tall boys into her habit. and the oft-mocked doomsday prophecy ultimately came true with the announcement that hostess would stop making the twinkie. end times, indeed. ♪ i will remember you >> reporter: the loss of the twinkie was a kick to the spo
and still another stunned the country by upholding the president's health care law from the big chair on the united states supreme court. it was enough to make one more harvard guy sing. ♪ i'm so in love with you >> reporter: not quite as strong a year for the harvard of the pacific northwest. reed college, represented here on "wheel of fortune." >> fan, fan, wand! oh! >> reporter: 2012 was a tantalizingly cruel year if you were a lion simply trying to eat a young...
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. >> under current law on january 1st, 2013, there's going to be a massive fiscal cliff of large spending cuts and tax increases. i hope that congress will look at that and figure out ways to achieve the same long-run fiscal improvement without having it all happen at one date. >> there's still significant distance between the two sides, but negotiations continue. there's still time left to reach an agreement. and we intend to continue negotiations. >> and so, here we are, new year's eve, and the country counts down to popping champagne corks, the ball dropping in times square, and going over the fiscal cliff. if congress fails to act in the remaining hours of 2012, taxes will go up on all americans and a series of mandatory government spending cuts will kick in. hello, new year. hello, new recession. after two years of missing self-imposed deadline after self-imposed deadline, all eyes were on the senate over the weekend as the house's failure to even bring a plan to a vote left it up to the upper chamber to find a way out. vice president biden who had remained on the sidelines in this r
. >> under current law on january 1st, 2013, there's going to be a massive fiscal cliff of large spending cuts and tax increases. i hope that congress will look at that and figure out ways to achieve the same long-run fiscal improvement without having it all happen at one date. >> there's still significant distance between the two sides, but negotiations continue. there's still time left to reach an agreement. and we intend to continue negotiations. >> and so, here we are, new...